2023 World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

Welcome

14 Aug 2023, 18:00

Ottawa

Conveners

Welcome

• Mike Sam (University Of Otago)

473. Keynote Lecture: Physical Culture, Forced Migration, and Resettlement: Lessons From the Kabul-Edmonton Soccer Team فرهنگ بدنی (ورزش)، مهاجرت اجباری، و اسکان مجدد: درس هایی از تیم فوتبال کابل-ادمنتون

Ashraf Amiri (University of Massachusetts), Jay Scherer

14/08/2023, 18:00

In January 2022, five months after the fall of Kabul, a group of 172 primarily Hazara refugees arrived in Edmonton, Alberta, having earlier travelled across the border to Pakistan amidst one of the largest and most protracted displacement crises in the history of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The Afghan newcomers and their children have been supported throughout a...